I’ve finished the section for ‘A’, and I’m already shocked at how much I’m learning. I’ve never been able to say that I’ve learned something from page one of a book, until now. (I didn’t know the difference between an acronym and initialism.) I have a running list of all of the little things I’ve learned, and I’ll review it when I’m done.
It’s simultaneously humbling and astonishing… I know about 95% of the words, which makes me proud and strokes my ego (which is perhaps why I enjoy reading it so much), yet it’s also humbling to realize the things I didn’t know: all of the words I was using without thinking about it, which in actuality have such a heavy significance; all of the items I was talking about without actually knowing what defines them; all of the strange things I had heard people talk of and accepted as fact, yet never fully understood the origins of.
I’m definitely going to finish and re-read the dictionary.
I love it.
